A canoe is provided, which is easier to store and transport than the canoes of the prior art, still being versatile, strong and durable in regard of its primary use as a paddling boat. The invention further relates to the uses of such a vector in the pharmaceutical field or for the large-scale production of peptides or proteins of interest. The insulator material has properties sufficient to withstand both the high weight loads and forces on the contact point between the drop wire clamp and the attachment point and the slight swinging or rubbing action between the drop wire clamp and the attachment point caused by the wind. The differences between the parent reference volume and the new volume are transmitted and are applied to the new volume to synchronize the child virtual machine on the secondary site to the child virtual machine on the primary site, wherein the child and the parent may be in different virtual machine groups.